60NYT > Wallace Stevenstopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/wallace_stevens/index.html?inline=nyt-perNews about Wallace Stevens, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usTue 03 Mar 2015 16:11:24 -0500http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comFor Wallace Stevens, Hartford as Musehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/travel/for-the-poet-wallace-stevens-hartford-was-an-unlikely-muse.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/travel/for-the-poet-wallace-stevens-hartford-was-an-unlikely-muse.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/02/26/travel/26FOOTSTEPS1_SPAN/26FOOTSTEPS1_SPAN-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>The Connecticut capital is where Wallace Stevens composed many of his verses while commuting on foot between his comfortable house and his office at an insurance company.By JEFF GORDINIERSun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/travel/for-the-poet-wallace-stevens-hartford-was-an-unlikely-muse.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe Poetry of Catastrophehttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/the-poetry-of-catastrophe/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA sampler of literary catastrophe for these dark times. Don't run away. It's not as depressing as it sounds. One of the enduring paradoxes of great apocalyptic writing is that it consoles even as it alarms.By SAM TANENHAUSFri, 18 Mar 2011 15:09:01 -0400http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/the-poetry-of-catastrophe/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe Plain Sense of Thingshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/08/23/books/vendler-75sub.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>The first edition of Wallace Stevens’s work in 20 years, edited by John N. Serio.By HELEN VENDLERSun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Vendler-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe Shore Dimly Seenhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01Lives.t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01Lives.t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2007/03/27/magazine/01lives75.1.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>Making your way back to yourself, with the help of Whitman, Dylan and Cole Porter &#151; after brain surgery.By TOM CHAFFINSun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01Lives.t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssChelsea Is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groupshttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/arts/design/28chel.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe summer group show wars are raging in Chelsea, and, in fact, they have become something of an annual rite over the last few years.By ROBERTA SMITHFri, 28 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/arts/design/28chel.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAt Long Last, a Poet Reignshttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/nyregion/at-long-last-a-poet-reigns.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTHE modernist poet Wallace Stevens was said to be ahead of his time, but this is ridiculous. Stevens, who lived in relative -- but comfortably bourgeois -- obscurity in Hartford from 1916 until his death in 1955, is receiving the sort of lionizing in...By ALAN BISBORTSun, 11 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/nyregion/at-long-last-a-poet-reigns.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBoard of Ed, Meet Wallace Stevenshttp://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/opinion/l-board-of-ed-meet-wallace-stevens-144690.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTo the Editor: Hooray to New York City's interim schools chancellor, Harold O. Levy, for sending out Wallace Stevens poems to the members of the Board of Education (front page, May 2), and for arranging encounters for superintendents and others...Sun, 07 May 2000 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/opinion/l-board-of-ed-meet-wallace-stevens-144690.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBoard of Ed, Meet Wallace Stevenshttp://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/opinion/l-board-of-ed-meet-wallace-stevens-144703.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTo the Editor: Reacting to the possibility that Harold O. Levy, the interim schools chancellor, had put three Wallace Stevens poems and other interesting reading matter in her mailbox, Ninfa Segarra, a school board member, said, ''Probably if I...Sun, 07 May 2000 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/opinion/l-board-of-ed-meet-wallace-stevens-144703.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA Place For Poets, Perhaps Not For Giantshttp://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/14/books/making-books-a-place-for-poets-perhaps-not-for-giants.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWhere have all the poets gone, long time passing; where have all the poets gone, long time ago? It may not be that young girls pick them, everyone, but several major publishing houses do. Poetry has become a consequential part of a few publishing...By MARTIN ARNOLDThu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/14/books/making-books-a-place-for-poets-perhaps-not-for-giants.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe Umbilical Kinship of Painters and Poetshttp://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/24/books/art-review-the-umbilical-kinship-of-painters-and-poets.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWallace Stevens (1879-1955) was literary hero to a generation of younger poets -- Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, among them -- who were also notable art critics. Yet Stevens' own connection with art has been little examined: "Painting in...By HOLLAND COTTERFri, 24 Mar 1995 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/24/books/art-review-the-umbilical-kinship-of-painters-and-poets.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss